All of the following are involved in gathering data about target behavior in a self-modification program except __________.

Gathering data about a target behavior includes recording how often it occurs, noting events that trigger it, and identifying consequences that follow it. These details help describe the behavior and the conditions around it. Evaluating whether the behavior changed is a later judgment based on comparing the collected data, so the exception is “evaluating whether or not target behavior was changed.”

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